Two early-morning sightings of a mountain lion on the Humboldt State University campus this week have prompted University Police to issue safety reminders to the community, should they encounter a mountain lion in the area.
Arcata – A team of Humboldt State University faculty and graduate students has won a $620,000 federal grant to develop water management solutions in the face of soaring population growth and rapid changes in water and land use in the rural West.
Arcata – Humboldt State University’s Admissions Office will accept freshmen applications for Fall 2009/Spring 2010 until March 1, 2009, extending the deadline beyond the mid-January cutoff used last year. Transfer students will have until June 1 to apply.
Frank Cheek, Humboldt State University's legendary softball coach, will be inducted into the "National Fastpitch Coaches Association":http://www.nfca.org/ (NFCA) Hall of Fame on Dec. 11, 2009 at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville, Tenn.
Professor Mary Glenn and her students found themselves in some pretty unique situations in Costa Rica last summer. Oh sure, they trounced around the jungle among poisonous snakes and learned to live with insatiable mosquitoes, but nothing quite compared to the all-out battle at the suspension bridge.
There is a 25 percent increase in waste between Thanksgiving and Christmas, reports the Carnegie Mellon University. Does that mean we should sacrifice holiday celebrations for sustainability? Not necessarily. There are many ways to celebrate the holidays without the environmental guilt. Jessica Lamm, a student writer at Humboldt State NOW, offers a few tips for a more eco-friendly holiday.
The end of the semester isn't the end of happenings at Humboldt State or the community at large. Humboldt State NOW is taking a look at the next few weeks and it turns out they're brimming with holiday activities sure to keep you warm before classes start back up on Tuesday, Jan. 20.
The Humboldt State University Library has launched construction of a full-scale Internet Café, the second phase of a multi-pronged project to furnish the campus with a 2lst century Learning Commons that bridges the print and digital worlds.
The University Police Department urges the campus community to be prepared for a severe winter storm this week that could strike with black ice, hail and snow on Highways 101, 299 and 36.
Arcata – Connie Stewart, Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity County senior field representative to Assemblywoman Patty Berg since 2002, has accepted appointment as the Director of Special Projects for the California Center for Rural Policy at Humboldt State University, a research and data mining unit aimed at improving rural living conditions on the Redwood Coast.
Kate Milich, a graduate student in the Natural Resources-Forestry M.S. program at Humboldt State won the Best Poster Award at the Pacific West Fire Conference last week in San Diego, CA.
Celebrating with music is a delightful holiday tradition, and this year some 150 musicians and singers from HSU, local grade schools and high schools and from the community will come together to perform a lavish Christmas cantata as the highlight of the Humboldt Symphony concert on Friday, Dec. 12 and Sunday, Dec. 14.
Finals week is fast approaching. Are you prepared? Humboldt State is chocked-full of resources to help you endure the week of examinations, from study lounges to pancake feeds.
Arcata - A dominant Humboldt State University team has won the National Wildlife Quiz Bowl for the sixth time in eight years, trouncing its four top competitors among 18 teams from such eminent schools as Purdue, Virginia Tech, the University of Wisconsin and Texas A&M.
The Full Belly Project and Humboldt State University’s Introduction to Design course hosted an open house from 5 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16 at HSU. The event marked the public unveiling of seven student team designs that improve and adapt the internationally acclaimed Universal Nut Sheller (UNS) as part of an international service learning partnership.
With the growing concern over climate change and because the lack of pre-existing federal regulations, California has struck out on its own to reduce its carbon emissions. The Golden State is known for being the country’s environmental trendsetter and is now setting the pace for carbon emissions policy with the California Climate Change Solutions Act (AB 32). AB 32 is a mandate to lower carbon emissions to 1990 levels by 2020 and to have an 80 percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2050.
_A Slight Derangement_ by contemporary trombonist and composer Bret Zvacek highlights the AM Jazz Band performance on Thursday night, Dec. 11, kicking off the last jazz weekend of the calendar year at HSU.
Arcata – Construction is slated to start early this year on a $2.9 million home for Humboldt State University’s Schatz Energy Research Center (SERC), for three decades a pioneer in clean air technologies like hydrogen power.
Ocean waves are a promising source of renewable electric power for the Redwood Coast, but the policy issues are complex and will force political tradeoffs, according to a state-commissioned white paper co-authored, in part, by experts from Humboldt State.
Arcata - Dr. Ronald A. Fritzsche, an alum ('67) and Professor of Fisheries Biology Emeritus at Humboldt State University, is one of 18 scientists worldwide and the only one from the U.S. west coast invited to a key conference in London in January to evaluate the marine fish species on the international endangered list.
Arcata – Humboldt State University junior Molly Louise McNulty, a native of McKinleyville, will attend the January 20, 2009 Inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden at the invitation of the University Presidential Inaugural Conference, Washington, D.C.
ARCATA — Zac Tiedeman began his California Collegiate Athletic Association career like a veteran Wednesday, scoring 25 points and hitting key shots down the stretch to help Humboldt State claim a 80-78 win over Sonoma State in the league-opener.
Humboldt State University students, along with school administration, staff and faculty members, collected and donated 950 pounds of food during this year’s HSU Holiday Food Drive to support the efforts of Food for People, Humboldt County’s food bank.
